Prizes were awarded for the best talks (full, short & lightning) and poster, as voted for by the conference attendees.

Best Full Talk

Winner: Bridget Tiller (Cohort 4)

Title of Talk: Quaternary ice-sheet and climate change on the Northeast Atlantic margin.

Honourable Mention: Jonathan Chikankheni (Cohort 4)

Title of Talk: Morpho-physiological and Biochemical Response of Quinoa to Drought Stress

Best Short Talk

Winner: J. Bela McCoy (Cohort 3)

Talk Title: Chattian to early Miocene (27.82-15.98 Ma) vegetation and climate of the UK from the Mochras borehole

Honourable Mention: Emily Donaghy (Cohort 5)

Talk Title: Microfibres in Soils: Detection, Degradation and Impact

Best Lightning Talk

Winners: Sophie Carolan (Cohort 5) and Matt Dopson (Cohort 4)

Title of Talk:

Sophie - Quantifying temporal change of a marginal coral reef in Central Caribbean between 2013-2023

Matt - Ecological Network Inference for Resilient Food Systems: A Mathematical Approach

Best Poster

Winner: Shannon Goldberg (Cohort 5)

Title of Poster: Monitoring and detecting invasive species in anthrobiomes: Bees on the Faroe Islands

Honourable Mentions:  Charlotte Jennings (Cohort 5) and Leila Pasandi (Cohort 4)

Title of Poster:

Charlotte - Seagrass restoration and recovery in a Bay of international importance

Leila - Developing a methodology to measure and optimise the impacts of climate change on urban building environment